President Barack Obama acknowledged on Tuesday that he may be a one-term president if voters’ patience with the pace of the economic recovery runs out by the next election.

“The mess has been bigger than a lot of people anticipated at the time,” Obama said in an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer from Peosta, Iowa. “We have made steady progress on these fronts but we’re not making progress fast enough. What I continue to believe is that ultimately the buck stops with me. I’m going to be accountable.”

However, Obama said that even though voters understand that the economy’s problems are “decades in the making,” voters are “impatient” to see more progress on the economy.

“I understand that and I’m sympathetic to that,” Obama said.

When it came to his potential Republican challengers, Obama had little to say, despite the almost daily attacks coming at him from the GOP field.

Obama said he would wait for Republicans to “winnow it down a bit” before commenting on the candidates. Until then, he said he hasn’t been giving his opponents “too much thought.”

Why do I think Obama is starting to think about quitting after 1 term???? I think he's finally realized he is over his head and is running out of scapegoats! When he blamed HIS mess on the Japan earthquake/tsunami and Arab Spring - he sounded like a psycho. Equally crazy is blaming his mess on the Republicans when he had a Super Majority for 2 years when most of the $4T damage occurred.

The $64M question is: Who is going to clean up Obama's MESS??? Maybe the R's should throw the electon back to him just for spite!

..."if voters’ patience with the pace of the economic recovery runs out by the next election."

What they've run out of is patience with the gentleman's constant petulant accusations and refusal to be accountable. He cannot psychologically even now accept responsibility. He cannot admit it...no. He says his is "going to be" accountable. Not..."I am accountable."

The gentleman is a classic study in mental pathology, to be certain.

And as for the pace of the recovery, what they've run out of patience with is the endless numb partisan rhetoric coming out of the gentleman. Here's a man, so called, who swore up and down that if we would only just hurry up and pass his $817 billion shovel ready stimulus package...without thinking about what was in it...and no peeking inside the bill now!...that somehow people would presently be back at work and the unemployment rate would drop...over two nearly three years ago!

The people are losing patience with Obama proving daily, by his own example, that a fool quickly (and often) opens his mouth and removes all doubt. And he has certainly done that and then some.

The people do not suffer a fool. If Obama were not so arrogant, he would understand this.

We're impatient all right; impatient to get Obama out of our WH so we can start to get things turned around. "We have made steady progress on these fronts but we’re not making progress fast enough." Really; I hadn't noticed! And what steady progress might that be? Jobs: no! Housing: no! Economy: No. Credit rating: No! Favorable rating overseas: No! Winning/ending wars: No! Just what has this incompetent pretender done in 2-1/2 years other than campaign, vacation, golf and party? He is One and Done!

I have a fifty buck bet that the Dems will not even re-nominate our esteemed President, as his countless and continued failures will make him so radioactive by this time next year that his chance for re-election will be patently nil. I have another fifty buck bet that old "Bubba" will see an opportunity to be the first three term President since FDR, and will convince the conventioneers in Charlotte to make him the Dem candidate. And I fear a "Mr. & Mrs.Clinton" ticket might be tough to beat. Such a move would certainly deprive the Reps of much of their campaign steam.